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Motorola’s R&D department is working on an “open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones,” with the aim of doing for hardware what Android has done for software. If an open, modular smartphone ecosystem can be realized, it could do wonders for innovation, massively drive down development timelines and total cost of ownership, and finally allow you to do whatever you want with your smartphone, rather than being constrained by draconian measures imposed by carriers and device makers.

In an odd quirk of fate, a month after Sebastian Anthony about upgradeable smartphones, an innovative fellow called Dave Hakkens has launched new modular smartphone concept called Phonebloks. The idea is that, instead of buying a sealed smartphone that has no replaceable parts and limited expandability, you would assemble your own smartphone from component “bloks,” which are essentially like digital Lego bricks.

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